Its going to be a dud ski season. Talk of a few paltry centimetres from here to mid June. Some snow making if conditions allow. Sell your gear on gumtree. You wont need it. You can scratch around amongst the rocks on QB long weekend

I think this weekend and the following might just be better than first thought. Plus get some snowmaking going with cold overnight temps finally getting consistent, I reckon next week will have COLD nights and perhaps snowmaking for quite a few hours at a time.

Especially the higher resorts.

My suspicion is that Winter weather (out here & Snowies etc) might just get a half decent start roughly in line with the calendar date for once. Not often that happens.

June is almost always scrappy for snow, to me July is when the season really gets underway. I'd never book to ski in June personally.

Its going to be a dud ski season. Talk of a few paltry centimetres from here to mid June. Some snow making if conditions allow. Sell your gear on gumtree. You wont need it. You can scratch around amongst the rocks on QB long weekend

I'm seeing around 80cm of snow between now and QBW

With snowmaking conditions idealI'd be suprised if less than ten lifts were open at Perisher over the weekend.

Re ski seasons i'll post my thoughts in general terms here.There are a few wild cards for getting Perisher up and running.

- cloud seeding . If the conditions are ideal I feel it does have an impact. The next two weeks have some good prolonged conditions for seeding.- snowmaking - the conditions look ideal for snowmaking non stop for periods approaching 5 days or more. Perisher has quite a large budget now for snowmaking. As well as just investing in the newest TA fans.

Donzah, great to see you posting regularly in here. Was a fan at the other forum.

I'm deadset serious. Whats been happening in sw corner of W.A is predictive of the snow season east. Signs point to a winter with few cold fronts. Some frosty nights. Stillness. Hear your neighbours fart in there houses kind of weather. Above average May temps in Perth and Sydney have sealed the Alps fate. If I am proved wrong I will eat my hat. I got my first attempt at snow depth predicting just about desd on in 2015. Its in the snow section of this site. I didnt have a go predicting last year as I took a sabbatical from this place. But my preduction for this year is in this thread quite a few pages back. I have a nautical background. I aint no prima donna when it comes to weather and reading the tea leaves. I will stand by my prediction of 110 cm at Spencer by the time this season is done and dusted

I could be completely wrong but I have noticed that when western Australia is doing bad for cold fronts, we often do good in the SE and vice versa. I guess there is usually one big high at higher latitudes (ie towards the poles) and if it is to the west predominantly than we get SW/SE winds and cold fronts on our side of the continent. Just my very amateur obs in a very short time weather watching compared to most here. Maybe in the good old days fronts were good everywhere back when the highs were further north in general.

Fantastic day, I'm sitting in the sun in the Botanic Gardens (it's across the road from Uni) and it's great. Light easterly wind, 19°C. Wonderful.

Edited by Wave Rider (25/05/201714:22)

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